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Updating Your
Hearing Aid Prescription
Hearing loss is a progressive degenerative medical condition that happens secondary to the natural aging process. In fact, studies suggest that hearing loss tends to get significantly worse about every 3.5 - 4 years.
Changes in your hearing can be likened to changes in your vision. When your eyesight changes, you get an update in your eyeglasses prescription i order to see more clearly. When your hearing prescription changes, your hearing loss has outpaced the capabilities of your hearing technology.
That's why every 4 years, we recommend that our patients update their old hearing aid prescription with a newer and better functioning one.
Your brain needs a proper prescription in order to reduce cognitive overload, which helps to reduce your risk of experiencing cognitive decline.
Is a NEW hearing aid prescription really better than an OLD one?
In short, the answer is: YES!
In short, updating your old four year old hearing aid prescription will help you hear speech better in quiet listening situations, help you hear and understand speech in environments with background noise, will improve your hearing in rooms with poor acoustics, and help reduce your discomfort of those loud uncomfortable noises.
But that's not all!
An updated hearing aid prescription is also recommended to help reduce the intensity level and awareness of your tinnitus.
If your hearing aid prescription is four years or older, call us at (207) 664-2123 to learn more about how our doctors can help you hear more clearly, more easily, and more comfortably.
Why is New Technology Better?
An Excellence in Audiology internal study led by neuroscientist Dr. Keith Darrow compared the listening performance of patients wearing their four year old old hearing aid prescription and then wearing a brand new hearing aid prescription.
Dr. Darrow and his team found:
Improvement in the ability to hear others when speaking in quiet situations with minimal background noise.
Improvement in the ability to hear and understand speech in background noise
Increase in the ability to hear in rooms with poor acoustics (church, theatre, gallery, etc.)
Decrease in the experience of loud and annoying noises!